In
Australia, a cube is also a commonly purchased quantity of
beer. A cube consists of 30
cans (not bottles), each holding 375 ml. Sold in cubes are the
cheaper, more
mainstream brands of
lager. Exactly what these brands are varies from city to city and state to state, but brands commonly sold in cubes include
Victoria Bitter,
Carlton Draught,
Toohey's Red and
Boags Classic Bitter.
Cubes are popular among
bogans and
uni students, for two reasons. The first is that a cube costs between 30-35 dollars (
AUD), meaning that this is an incredibly cheap, although not
the absolute cheapest, way of getting messily drunk without
making your own. The second reason is that two or three people can go on a ten or fifteen minute there-and-back walk to the
bottle-o and will still have at least a
slab remaining by the time they get back.